"The public presence of Nicholas Rena as a ceramic artist in the international field has been quickly consolidated. He has become known for monumentality. Perhaps you might expect this of an ex-architect - a grander, deeper feeling for interior space and containing wall." Alison Britton OBE, 2003
Biographical NotesBorn in 1963, Nicholas Rena's postgraduate qualifications include an MA in Architecture from Cambridge University (1986) and MA in Ceramics from the Royal College of Art (1995).
He was educated at Eton College where he studied art under Gordon Baldwin, who was to have a lasting influence on him. His work is represented in the permanent public collections of the V&A Museum, the Louvre Paris, the British Council, the Crafts Council, Canary Wharf in London, and the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, amongst others. He has exhibited internationally in both solo and group exhibitions.
Nicholas Rena lives in west London with his wife and their two sons.
Forthcoming Exhibitions: Solo Show 6 May - 19 June 2010 at
Marsden Woo Gallery, 17-18 Great Sutton Street, London EC1V ODN www.bmgallery.co.uk Tel: 020 7336 6396 for Tatjana Marsden
& at the Saatchi Gallery 14-17 May 2010
Selected for Second European Triennial of Ceramics & Glass, Mons, September 2010
The Grainer Collection: Contemporary British Studio Ceramics, The Mint Museum of Craft & Design, 220 N.Tryon Street, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, Fall 2010. A colour catalogue, published by Yale University Press, will accompany this exhibition. For further information contact michelle.mickey@mintmuseum.org
Previous shows:
Palais du Louvre Paris, musee des Arts decoratifs 11 June - 04 October 2009 - for full details click on Current Exhibition in menu
Saatchi Gallery 15-17 May 2009
Firing Imaginations, British Council Touring Exhibition, Brazil, 2000
Sotheby's London & Sotheby's New York (curated by Janice Blackburn)
Phillips de Pury, New York
The Garth Clark Gallery, New York
Jerwood Prize 2008, Jerwood Space
Jerwood Prize 2001 at the Crafts Council Gallery
The Woo Foundation Bursary Award 2000
Barrett Marsden Gallery, Clerkenwell, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2007, 2009
Jerwood Contemporary Exhibition, The Galleries at Dovecot, 10 Infirmary Street, Edinburgh 13 November 2008 - 29 January 2009 Tel: 0131 315 3054
The Scottish Gallery, 16 Dundas Street, Edinburgh 2002, 2007, 2008
Driven to Abstraction, Edinburgh International Festival Exhibition 1999Lynne Strover Gallery, Cambridge,1999
Oxford Gallery, Oxford, New Masters, Old Masters, 2000
Glynn Vivian Gallery Swansea: New Directions in Ceramic Sculpture
Contemporary Applied Arts Gallery 1997
Galerie Norby, Copenhagen, Denmark (with Karen Bennicke) November 2003
British Ceramics, Keramikmuseet Grimmerhus, Denmark, 2000
Galerie Puls, Brussels
Galerie Binnen, Amsterdam, 1999
Nicholas Rena is a member of the Peter Dormer Committee at the Royal College of Art, London.